Capital

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Capital (2000)

Directed by Sarah Morris

Documentary · 19m

Sarah Morris made the film “Capital” in Washington during the final days of the Clinton administration. It is a record of now unimaginable access to the centers of power. Capital continues Morris’ investigation of the way we decode and therefore begin to understand the built world around us. “Capital”, first exhibited at the National Gallery in Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof) draws a complex and layered city portrait. The Mall, the White House Press Office, the World Bank, uniformed members of the Secret Service, the Presidential motorcade, the Watergate Complex, the Kennedy Center, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, The Pentagon, the daily activities of the President and an overall consideration of the city form a sequence of reflection points for her series of paintings. While her earlier paintings from New York and Las Vegas offered a new examination of the codes and structures of our urban environment, these new works introduce a revised mapping of power, desire, urbanism and design.

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Crew

Director
Sarah Morris
Director of Photography
David Daniel
Editor
Wilson Converse
Producer
Rebecca Siegel

Details

Release date
2000-01-01
Runtime
19m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
No Language
Production
Parallax Corporation